{"id":695650,"date":"2026-07-16T23:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695650\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:16:27","slug":"turkiyes-free-zones-hit-record-6-6-billion-exports-in-first-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695650\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s free zones hit record $6.6 billion exports in first half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            ANKARA<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a58a72b5625e6181d3fd1f1.jpg\" alt=\"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s free zones hit record $6.6 billion exports in first half\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Exports from T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s 19 <a title=\"free zones\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/free-zones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free zones<\/a> reached a record $6.6 billion in the first half of the year, up 6.2 percent year-on-year, the <a title=\"Trade Ministry \" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/trade-ministry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trade Ministry <\/a>said on July 16.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the January-June export figure marked the highest level ever recorded by the country\u2019s free zones.<\/p>\n<p>June exports also reached a record high, rising 29.5 percent year-on-year to $1.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the free zones strengthened their net exporter profile, with the export-to-import coverage ratio reaching 151.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, exports accounted for 76.6 percent of total sales from free zones in the first six months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The technological composition of exports also improved during the period, it added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the January-June period, medium-high <a title=\"Technology\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/index\/technology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">technology<\/a> products accounted for 52.2 percent of total exports, while high-technology products represented 6.7 percent, bringing their combined share to 58.9 percent,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,942 companies operate in T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s free zones, including 477 foreign-owned firms, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>These companies provide direct employment to 86,909 people, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA Exports from T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s 19 free zones reached a record $6.6 billion in the first half of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,231277,86,212992,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-695650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-free-zones","tag-technology","tag-trade-ministry","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}